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* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
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AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
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Search tool	Example of search string in box	What that means to the database
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
Single word	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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Plethodon vandykei Van Denburgh, 1906

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Plethodontinae > Genus: Plethodon > Species: Plethodon vandykei

Plethodon vandykei Van Denburgh, 1906, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 3, 4: 61. Holotype: CAS 6910 (destroyed in San Francisco earthquake and fire according to Slevin and Leviton, 1956, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 28: 535); CAS 47495 designated neotype by Slevin and Leviton, 1956, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 28: 535. Highton, 1962, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 6: 257, rejected the neotype designation because its locality is 130 miles from the original type locality and because it was unnecessary to solve any complex nomenclatural problem. Type locality: "Paradise Valley, Mount Rainier Park, Washington", USA; arguable neotype from "Forks, Clallam County, Washington", USA.

Plethodon vandykei vandykei — Lowe, 1950, Copeia, 1950: 93; Burns, 1954, Herpetologica, 10: 83.

Plethodon (Hightonia) vandykei — Vieites, Nieto-Roman, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 632.

English Names

Van Dyke Salamander (Plethodon vandykei: Stebbins, 1951, Amph. W. North Am.: 80).

Van Dyke's Salamander (Plethodon vandykei: Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 275; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 39; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 175; Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 41; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 8; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 33; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 9; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 29; Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 170; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 21; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 14; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 30; Highton, Bonett, and Jockusch, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 32).

Washington Salamander (Plethodon vandykei vandykei [now coextensive with Plethodon vandykei]: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 39; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 175; Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 41; Plethodon vandykei: Slevin, 1928, Occas. Pap. California Acad. Sci., 16: 57; Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 275).

Distribution

Olympic Peninsula in Willapa Hills and nearby Long Island and in southern Cascade Range, western Washington, 0–1550 m elevation, USA.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: United States of America, United States of America - Washington

Endemic: United States of America, United States of America - Washington

Comment

In the Plethodon vandykei group of Highton and Larson, 1979, Syst. Zool., 28: 579–599. Reviewed by Brodie and Storm, 1970, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 91: 1-2. See comments under Plethodon idahoensis. See Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 401–403, for account and discussion of systematic issues. Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 170–171, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Carstens, Stevenson, Degenhardt, and Sullivan, 2004, Syst. Biol., 53: 781–794, reported on phylogeography of this species. Beamer and Lannoo, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 846–847, provided a detailed account that summarized the biology and conservation literature. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 408–409, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Pelletier, Crisafulli, Wagner, Zellmer, and Carstens, 2015, Syst. Biol., 64: 909–925, provided a study of historical species distributions. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 941–943, provided an account summarizing systematics, morphology, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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